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taper English

Meaning taper meaning

What does taper mean?
Definitions in simple English

taper Noun

— A taper is a slender candle.

taper Verb

— If you taper something, you make it thinner or narrower at one end.

taper

— verb diminish gradually Interested tapered off — noun a convex shape that narrows toward a point — noun the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone) — noun (= wick) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame — noun (= candle) stick of wax with a wick in the middle — verb (= point) give a point to The candles are tapered

Synonyms taper synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as taper?

taper English » English

candle narrow cone wax light sharpen point decrease wick pyramid diminish cone-shaped weaken wane trim back trim touchwood tinder tightened throttle tapered take in subulate subtract spunk spray-cone small candle slope gradient slope shrink reduce rationalize rationalise rake pyramis ossis temporatis primer pointed cone plug pineal penetrator narrowing limit lessen keyer inclination hold down grade of slope grade fastigiate falling gradient factor out

Topics taper topics

What do people use taper to talk about?
States Big Wide

Narrow
States Big Thick

Thin thing

  • What words refer to making something thin?
    taper
States Quality Light Shine

Light source
States Quantity More

Decrease

Conjugation taper conjugation

How do you conjugate taper?

taper · verb

Examples taper examples

How do I use taper in a sentence?

Simple sentences

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Movie subtitles

It is ordered that you proceed and kneel at the doors of St Peter's and Saint Ursula's and there, with a rope round your neck and a two-pound taper in your hand, ask pardon of God, the King and justice.
I want you to taper off. No more.
Tony, keep the taper nice and tight around the waist.
Light the taper, Richie! - Okey-dokey.
The gunshot wounds and knife wounds taper off in the winter but spring's just around the corner.
As long as the bleeding isn't heavy, it's normal, it should taper off tomorrow.
I was thinking maybe it would be better to taper off slowly, you know?
I have to taper it so light reaches the lower leaves during growing season.
Give it a nice taper through the shoulders and the back.
Mais je vais te. taper!
I was thinking, maybe it would be better to taper off slowly, you know?
Take a taper to them candles, Sue.
They taper toward the nock.
But when you don't find anything, put her on a Librium taper for the withdrawal and get her a bed in a rehab clinic.
I understand that these things don't last a lifetime, but should not it taper off a bit?
Burned? I never put a taper to her.
You got to taper it off.
I mean,the taper just went through a renovation so it's a really nice house to perform in.
Give me a taper!
I'm going to have a little talk with her. about the proper height for a taper.
But when you don't find anything put her on a Librium taper for the withdrawal and get her a bed in a rehab clinic.
The Eliot campaign will celebrate the holiday with a memorial concert at the Taper Center.
They hung that fly taper in the corner.
Taper it off after a few days.
To refuse to taper yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge, and then you are going to live your life on the tightrope.
Have you a taper?
Strike on the tinder, give me a taper, call up all my people.
If I have to watch you taper about with muck on your face.
Maybe you should've stayed at your mom's that day. Tony, keep the taper nice and tight around the waist.
Trans Con 47. this is Rachel Taper, Trans Con Crisis Management Center.
This is Rachel Taper again.
All right, boy, you can tell your lawyer to shove a taper up his arse and set himself alight.
Well,tonight is our final performance at the taper, so I'm thinking,afterwards,a glass of chardonnay and a hot bath sounds about right.
The blade was double-edged with an identical taper on both sides.
Can you give me the angle of that taper?

News and current affairs

People could work an average of 1,800-2,000 hours per year until they reach their 50's, taper off to 1,300-1,500 hours in their early 60's, and move toward the 500-1,000 range as they approach 70.
For starters, whereas the 2013 taper tantrum caught markets by surprise, the Fed's intention to hike rates this year, clearly stated over many months, will not.
Unlike the taper tantrum and the devaluation of the renminbi, the Fed's rate-hike announcement on December 16 certainly was no surprise.
And the Federal Reserve has validated this seemingly uplifting scenario by starting to taper its purchases of long-term assets.

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